90s Rock On TeenNick As Its Late-Night Retro Block Gets Off To Great Start
By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 11:56am PDT
Who knew there was such appetite for 1990s tween sitcoms? It seems like TeenNick stumbled onto a gold mine with its retro The 90s Are All That 12 AM-2 AM block, which launched Monday, drawing some 555,000 total viewers for the first night, a 114% time-slot improvement vs. last year. The gains were even more impressive in the younger demos: 1.3/417,000 among adults 12-24, up +225%, and 0.6/229,000 in adults 18-34, up +500%. In those demos, the reruns of Nickelodeon's Kenan & Kel (from 1995), All That (1996), Doug (1991) and Clarissa Explains It All (1992) bested most network late-night shows. On Twitter, TeenNick had eight of nine trending topics worldwide during the block's premiere.
Not a fan of how they're putting the same line-up out for what will be the fourth week in a row now. We see shows like Monsters, Hey Arnold etc in the previews yet with this scheduling it might be months before we actually get to watch them.
Of course they will. But like I said, some of us will apparently be waiting quite before we see the shows we wanted to watch.
We have to go to the Nick website and vote our favorite shows in the line-up or some stupid shat.
I see. I haven't bothered going to the website they advertise. Maybe I'll check it out. Would've been better to just have different stuff every night. Makes more sense to me.
Teen Nick Dumps Clarissa Explains It All [Update]
8/24/11 at 12:00 PM
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Teen Nick's experiment in resurrecting nineties shows for late night has been a runaway ratings smash, but the schedule is about to get a shake-up. EW reports that on September 5, Clarissa Explains It All and Doug will be dropped from the network's two-hour "The 90s Are All That" programming block, replaced by cartoons Hey Arnold! and Rocko's Modern Life. (Schedule stalwarts All That and Kenan and Kel will get to stay put ... for now.) Nostalgia: so ephemeral! UPDATE: Teen Nick just clarified the situation to Vulture, and Clarissa and Doug will still air on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. Phew! [Inside TV/EW]
HEY DUDE and Stick Stickly Join The 90′s Are All That Line-Up Which is Moving to Primetime on TeenNick
by Ethan Anderton Postedctober 5th, 2011 at 10:41 am
Back in March we learned that a handful of programming from the 90′s would make its way to late night time slots on TeenNick for a great block of shows called The 90′s Are All That. Originally starting with All That, Kenan & Kel, Doug and Clarissa Explains It All, the line-up has since expanded to include shows like Hey Arnold! and Rugrats. Now another Nickelodeon classic is joining the ranks as EW has word that Hey Dude is saddling up for some reruns. If this just didnt hit during your childhood or you just didnt have Nickelodeon as a kid, the series, which aired from 1989-1991, followed a wacky group of teenagers working at the Bar None western dude ranch and starred David Brisbin (Mr. Ernst), David Lascher (Ted), Christine Taylor (Melody), Kelly Brown (Brad), and Joe Torres (Danny).
Not only is Hey Dude coming around, but the entire programming line-up is moving from the late night time slot to a primetime start at 10/9c. And for even more great news for children of the 90′s another staple from Nickelodeon will return every Friday. The popsicle stick host Stick Stickly (I still remember the address where you could send letters that could be brought up on air) will host UPick with Stick where every Friday night, episodes can be chosen by viewers via Facebook and www.90sAreAllThat.com. Honestly, why cant we just have a whole channel dedicated to Nickelodeons programming from the 90′s? Until that day comes, this will have to suffice I suppose